Airplane in the background... how to remove it?
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Airplane in the background... how to remove it?
Have a video of a backyard wedding and an airplane goes over during the vows... /roles eyes. So I am trying to remove this noise with the filter but the plane is so loud that using the filter even on the lowest setting distorts the voice quite a bit. Any other suggestions on how to isolate and remove this noise from the track?
Re: Airplane in the background... how to remove it?
You can remove the low rumbling using either a high-pass filter, or the Equalization effect to reduce all frequencies below about 150 Hz.
There's not much more that you can do without causing significant damage to the sounds that you want to keep.
The Equalization effect is a lot better in Audacity 1.3.12 than in 1.2.x, so if you want to try this I'd recommend upgrading.
There's not much more that you can do without causing significant damage to the sounds that you want to keep.
The Equalization effect is a lot better in Audacity 1.3.12 than in 1.2.x, so if you want to try this I'd recommend upgrading.
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Re: Airplane in the background... how to remove it?
At first blush you might assume the "Noise Removal" tool would be indicated, but no. Noise removal is only useful for noises that are completely stable and unchanging over the course of the performance like microphone hum or gentle air conditioning noises. An airplane pitch and volume changes constantly, so you can't ever get a sample or profile of the sound as a target.
That's not to say there aren't ways around this. You can use Effect > Noise Gate to try and suppress all the sound between the words of the participants and then use word by word editing to put normal background noises (before of after the plane) back into performance.
"Do" edit edit "you" edit edit "esthmerelda" edit edit "take" edit edit "robespierre" edit edit, etc.
You may be able to get away with two tracks one above the other and fading in the good background as needed with the Envelope tool -- two white arrows and bent blue line.
You can only do this in Audacity 1.3 and it can't take you much more than a week or two to get a good match depending on how long the plane was in the show. If there are times when the plane is the loudest thing in the show, you're dead.
Koz
That's not to say there aren't ways around this. You can use Effect > Noise Gate to try and suppress all the sound between the words of the participants and then use word by word editing to put normal background noises (before of after the plane) back into performance.
"Do" edit edit "you" edit edit "esthmerelda" edit edit "take" edit edit "robespierre" edit edit, etc.
You may be able to get away with two tracks one above the other and fading in the good background as needed with the Envelope tool -- two white arrows and bent blue line.
You can only do this in Audacity 1.3 and it can't take you much more than a week or two to get a good match depending on how long the plane was in the show. If there are times when the plane is the loudest thing in the show, you're dead.
Koz